in one's wildest dreams

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in one's wildest dreams

1. (idiomatic, normally in the negative) Much better than one could ever expect.
   • 1843, Calderón de la Barca, Life in Mexico:

     At the same time, the Count de B—— very philanthropically hired an old discolored-looking horse, which was grazing peaceably outside the hut, and mounting the astonished quadruped, who had never, in his wildest dreams, calculated upon having so fine a chevalier on his back, galloped off in search of more solid food, while we set the Indian women to baking tortillas.

   • 2022 August 10, Philip Haigh, “Scotland switched on to electrification”, in RAIL, number 963, page 35:

     Those most rural routes will not get overhead wires. As Reeve told the seminar: "Even in my wildest dreams, I can't see a business case for electrifying the Far North Line."